St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

the precise moment. For lazy pupils it
is recommended to put the book con-
tanning the lesson to be learned under
the pillow at night, and they Will be
sure to know it in the morning. In
the Highlands of Scotland it is said that
if a servant while making the bed hap
pens to sneeze, the sleep of the person
who is to lie in it will be disturbed, I'M
less little of the straw, Cor other sub
Stance) with which it is stuffed is taken
out and thrown into the fire.
If, in dressing, you put on your stock
ing wrong side out, it is a sign of good
luck; but you must leave it so, or the
luck will change before night. On the
other hand, if stocking is put on
wrong side out on the wedding day, it
pOrtendS disastrous union. If you put
stitch in any article of clothing that is
on your body you will sew your luck
fast; and if there are any strings to be
tied or loOSened while dressing, you
must be careful not to get them into a
knot.
SIGNS AND PORTENTS.
If, on going out of the house, yOu for
get something, you must under no cir
cumstances turn back if you can pos
sibly avoid it; if you do, you must at
any rate sit down a moment before
going out again. If the first person
you meet is an old woman, it is sign
of coming misfortune; while, on the
contrary, a funeral procession denotes
good fortune. Pigs to your left bring
good luck, to your right the
opposite; to avert which, grasp some
thing made of steel and the spell will be
broken. If, on setting out on journey
you meet a sow with pig your enter
prise will be sure to be successful. 10
meet two magpieS portendS marriage;
three, a successful journey; four, uneX-
dected good news. To see one magpie
and then more, is unlucky; to kill one
Of these birds is irretrieyable mlsfor-
tune. 1t is also unlucky to kill Swal-
low.
If your left hand itches, you will take
i'll money: if the right, you will pay it
out. A ringing in the right ear means
that some one is speaking we'll of you;
if the left, you may be sure that evil
tongues are busy with you. If your
right eye itcheS, you will see some beau
tiful sight; if the lett, you will have
cause to shed tears. If your nose itches,
you will hear some news, Or-Wlll fall
into the mire.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
If strangers of opposite sexes resem-
bic each other, you can wager thou
sand to Ole that they Will marry if they
meet, provided they carefully avoid
using the words ''if'' and ''but, )" or give
them proper turn when used. You
must never give shoes or stockings to
any one whom you wish to retain near
you; if you do, he will be sure to run
away. If lover presents knife or
any sharp instrument to his beloved,
their love will be cut aSunder, unless he
takes q min or sonnet binU similar in py-
change. Hence the words of the old
song:
IF you love me as love you,
No knife can cut our loves in two
A young bride must not assist in
washing her own linen for the first time
after the wedding, if she wishes to re-
main i'll the land of the living; nor must
she help sew her own bridal garments,
if she would not be unfortunate with
her children. Furthermore, no girl who
has worn the myrtle wreath in jest will
ever become a bride; and if she does
this with the silver wreath FUSED
in some parts of Germany she
will never celebrate her silver
wedding. If you are to be married in
church you must leave the house hand
in hand, and be the steps ever so narrow
you must descend them together: if you
let go of each other it will bring separa-
ton, either in life or death. He who
looks around on the way to the wedding
is looking for another: and, if the we'd
ding ring is lost, it forebOdeS that the
| couple will not live long together. If a
younger sister is married before the
others, the latter should take care to
dance at her wedding without shoes,
otherwise they can never hope to get
husbands.
oMENS OF DEATH.
To wind up this round of omens and
portents, many things betoken and
herald death. The creaking of doors,
the ticking of the small insect called the
death watch, the cry of the screech owl
and the bowling of dogs at midnight,
the splitting of a small and hollow piece
of coal from your open fire and a hum
| dred other equally Indifferent things an
| nOunce the approach of the king of ter
rorS. If glass breaks which has been
used by all invalid great deal. you can
prepare for his death. So when the
| majesty of death has entered your
household, you must cover your mirrors
to prevent the dead being reflected
in them, and thus denoting more than
| one corpse in the house. Then, too, if
| the eyelids of the dead are not closed
! tight, he is said to be looking for sec
| Ond corpse. From every article of
clothing put upon dead person, the
mark or name must be carefully cut, or
| he would not rest in his grave; so the
| comb or brush which has been used to
smooth his hair must be put into his
| coffin and buried with him, for should
| any one else use it he would be subject
| to violent headaches forever after. ~ ~
PRESENT AND FUTURE. -
Thus it goes, OH every hand, from the
| cradle to the grave superstition accom-
| panieS us at every step; we can neither
| begin nOrend our earthly career with
| out it; we can neither dress nor I'M
dress, nor eat, nor drink, neither marry
nor be given in marriage, work nor
play, without it. If we chase it out of
| the front door with a pitchfork, it will
be in again by the back door before
we are aware of it. It has been the
bane of human history, and has poi
| Soned the well-Spring of many a
| life. "Generation after generation of
follies, strangely affiliated, waits on the
successive descendants of man, and
| perpetuates in another shape the super
| stitionS which we thought eradicated.''
Perhaps the most we can hope for is
| that, whatever hindranceS and STUN
bling-blOcks it may put in our way here,
they will all be removed when we no
longer see things. as it were, Through
a glass darkly," but face to face, in
their eternal essence and reality.
A Dreary Outlook.
Hartford Post
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